What is Taylor Ham?

[Cooking Goddess]

...Is it
quite processed then? Like our spam?

Oh, yes, it's quite processed. Just like our spam...

When I googled "Taylor's Ham", one of the options was a "Serious Eats" link. The subtitle in the article said "It's Spam for people who don't want to admit they like Spam". LOL!

If you want to read the entire article, you can find it here: Anyone Else Like Pork Roll? | Serious Eats

 

[salt and pepper]

When I googled "Taylor's Ham", one of the options was a "Serious Eats" link. The subtitle in the article said "It's Spam for people who don't want to admit they like Spam". LOL!

If you want to read the entire article, you can find it here: Anyone Else Like Pork Roll? | Serious Eats

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...jersey&usg=AFQjCNGklXTJy3IDHu5tREx9O2Kwjn5aDw

 

[creative]

When I googled "Taylor's Ham", one of the options was a "Serious Eats" link. The subtitle in the article said "It's Spam for people who don't want to admit they like Spam". LOL!

Yes it would seem so! A google search revealed that the ingredients of spam and Taylor's Ham/pork roll are identical but for the latter also having spices and lactic acid. My mouth finds cooked spam, e.g. in fritters quite tasty but my brain would stop at the word 'processed'

 

[Addie]

Their site fails to list ingredients. So I Googled it.

Taylor Pork Roll (16 oz.) :: Foodfacts.com :: Find out what's REALLY in your food. ::

 

[Addie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)

And then I looked up Spam ingredients. Compare the two.

 

[Andy M.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)



And then I looked up Spam ingredients. Compare the two.

Neither is especially appealing or healthful. Pick the better tasting one.

 

[LPBeier]

I think we are kind of train-wrecking the OP here.

My feelings are if the basic recipe is a good one (which I believe this is), but you don't like a certain element, just switch it out for something you do like. Since this a breakfast meal, some cubed ham might be nice!

 

[GotGarlic]

Criminy. Do any of you critics ever eat salami or kielbasa or bratwurst or chorizo or bangers? Spam and pork rolls aren't all that different

It's chopped meat with added seasonings and preservatives. People have been using preservatives for millennia. I can't understand why preservatives are scary when their scientific names are used in a list of ingredients.

 

[creative]

Moderation!

 

[creative]

Criminy. Do any of you critics ever eat salami or kielbasa or bratwurst or chorizo or bangers? Spam and pork rolls aren't all that different

It's chopped meat with added seasonings and preservatives. People have been using preservatives for millennia. I can't understand why preservatives are scary when their scientific names are used in a list of ingredients.

Preservatives is a general term.

I would have thought you would be familiar with sodium nitrates and nitrites though.....

 

[GotGarlic]

Moderation!

Care to elaborate?

 

[GotGarlic]

Preservatives is a general term.

I would have thought you would be familiar with sodium nitrates and nitrites though.....

I am. Are you?

http://ruhlman.com/2011/05/the-no-nitrites-added-hoax/

http://ruhlman.com/2011/02/meat-curing-safety-issues/

 

[GotGarlic]

More: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22487433

 

[creative]

More: Human safety controversies surrounding nitrate and nitrite in the diet. - PubMed - NCBI

I see you are not up to speed then.

WHO’s dubious claims on processed meats - Daily News Egypt

(Hence why I said moderation!)

 

[GotGarlic]

I see you are not up to speed then.

WHO’s dubious claims on processed meats - Daily News Egypt

(Hence why I said moderation!)

Oh yes, I forgot about that. There isn't really any new information there.

My point is simply that Taylor ham and Spam are not much different from any other processed meat.

 

[Kaneohegirlinaz]

OH MY!
I very first time my husband took me "Back East" and I had Taylor's Ham
I said, "MMM, it's like Spam" OH MY, wrong thing to say.
I brought some home and made a Sunday Brunch and invited my parents.
My Dad said, "MMM, it's like Spam".
My husband was fit to be tied!

 

[RPCookin]

OH MY!
I very first time my husband took me "Back East" and I had Taylor's Ham
I said, "MMM, it's like Spam" OH MY, wrong thing to say.
I brought some home and made a Sunday Brunch and invited my parents.
My Dad said, "MMM, it's like Spam".
My husband was fit to be tied!

Apparently in some rural areas of the great plains (and maybe elsewhere, but this is where I'm familiar with it), bologna (baloney) goes incognito too. My wife grew up calling it "minced ham" here in NE Colorado, as did her girlfriend from SW Iowa. The first time she said that she was going to get minced ham at the store, I thought she was talking about something like Underwood deviled ham. It was a surprise to me when she came home with plain old baloney. I gave her a look and said "Oh, you meant baloney!" She said (semi tongue in cheek) "No, minced ham."

Her father still calls it minced ham - for 92 years he always has and he isn't going to change now.

 

[cinisajoy]

Hey GotGarlic,
Yesterday I saw chorizo spam.

 

[Kayelle]

Hey GotGarlic,
Yesterday I saw chorizo spam.

Buy it cin!! Chorizo Spam is far superior!! I've been using it since it recently came on the market. Great flavor, and consistent texture.
It sure makes killer Mexican breakfast burritos!

 

[GotGarlic]

Shoot, we had a coupon for two cans of Spam and I was planning on trying a different flavor, but I wasn't feeling well so DH did the shopping and just got the original. Maybe next time.